I have Office 2013 on Windows 8.1 but when I open Excel it says it can't open personal.xls. If I press Alt-F11 the VBA screen opens but there is no sign of personal.xls. The file exists and is in the folder C:\Users\Lorne\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART with no obvious errors (like read only flags). That folder exists in the trusted locations screen and all the macros in personal.xls are digitally signed by my own personal signature which is also in the trusted publishers list.
If I continuously open and close Excel after 5 or 6 tries it eventually opens normally and all my macros magically reappear !
Any ideas what I should be looking for? It is a recent problem - Excel had been working normally for well over a year since I last changed anything in personal.xls.
Lorne